Earthen-tile weather-boarding



(No Model.)

A. T. BLATCHFORD. EARTHEN TILE WEATHER BOARDING.

I Patented Nov. 19, 1889.v

WizinMAeA UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALFRED T. BLATOHFORD, OF BEAVER, PENNSYLVANIA.

EARTH EN-TILE WEATHER-BOARDING.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent N 0. 415,605, dated November19, 1889.

Application filed December 18, 1888. Serial No. 294,015. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALFRED T. BLATOHFORD, of Beaver, in the county ofBeaver and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and ImprovedEarthen-Tile \Veather-Boarding of which the following is aspecification.

This invention has relation to tiles for weather-boarding and otheranalogous purposes, and has for its object to provide a tile which shallbe light and easily attached and comparatively inexpensive.

This invention therefore consists in the provision of an earthenweather-board tile, more fully described hereinafter, and specificallypointed out in the claims.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, which form part of thisspecification, Figure l is a rear elevation, Fig. 2 an end view, Fig. 3a sectional view on line N O of Fig. 1, Fig. 4 a sectional view 011 lineL M, Fig. 5 a front elevation, and Fig. 6 a perspective, of the tile.

A designates the body of the tile, having recesses or chambers A Aformed by the raised portions 0 C C C, which extend around the outeredge of the tile and across its center.

B B designate extensions or flanges across the ends of the tiles, saidflanges being designed and adapted to impinge against the studs of thebuilding when the tiles are in position.

Ports or holes H in the rims O are provided, whereby the tile may befastened to the build gether and forming a close joint, cement bein gused, if deemed advisable, to more securely close the joints between thetiles, and thus render them air and water tight.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, 1s

1. A tile provided with ridges O G and flanges B B, substantially asdescribed.

2. A tile provided with ridges C C, forming depressions or air-spaces AA on its interior side, and ports H H in said ridges, whereby the tilemay be secured in position by a nail or other suitable fastening devicepassing through said ports, substantially as described.

A. T. BLATCHFORID. \Vitnesses:

J. F. REED, J. J. DAVIDSON.

